DXC Technology Company

DXC Technology Company is a U.S.-based multinational information technology (IT) service provider. It was founded in April, 2017 as the merger of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) with the Enterprise Services division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The remnants of the defunct Hewlett-Packard Company currently form three separate corporations:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP Enterprise or HPE) is mainly a provider of servers, networking, data storage equipment, and software services to institutional clients. HP Enterprise split in April 2017 to form DXC Technology, and is due to split again later in 2017, selling its software business to the UK-based company MicroFocus.

DXC Technology, which focuses on outsourced IT services and the design and implementation of custom-made IT platforms for institutional clients such as government agencies and big corporations.

As a part of the merger deal that created DXC Technology, HP Enterprise assigned half of the DXC Technology board of directors, and HP Enterprise shareholders received 50 percent of the shares in DXC Technology. In addition, DXC Technology maintains its relationships with other HPE and HP Inc. divisions on existing contracts, making it another member of the “HP family.” None of these recent corporate restructuring activities were followed by public disclosure by these companies clarifying the separation of specific business relationships and subsidiary companies. We have reached out to them and asked for updated information, and we will update this page as we receive more information.

Management of Israeli Population Registry and ID System

In the 1990s, the Israeli Ministry of the Interior launched Project Aviv to modernize the computerized database that contains its population registry. Hewlett-Packard Company has been managing the database since 2003, when it bought the company that initially designed it. Israeli government agencies that want to use the information need to pay per query of the database. The population registry records information about residents’ ethnic identity and religion. Israeli and Palestinian residents are required by law to carry at all times an ID card, which indicates their ethnicity and religion. This information is regularly used by the authorities on all levels to discriminate between Jews and non-Jews in Israel and in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In 2008, Israel contracted EDS Israel for the Arbel project, which included creating a biometric database of Israeli citizens, stratified by ethnicity and religion. Beginning in 2013, Hewlett-Packard Company employees have been stationed with the system to provide technical assistance to Israeli government employees. In 2008, Hewlett-Packard Company also started producing biometric ID cards for Israeli residents, including Israeli citizens, Israeli West Bank settlers, and Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem. These ID cards mark ethnicity and religion information from the Aviv and Arbel systems. In 2017, Israel passed a law mandating all Israeli citizens to submit biometric information to the database. DXC Technology assumed responsibility for this contract in May 2017.

Presence in Illegal Settlements

DXC Technology has a research and development (R&D) center in Beitar Illit, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. The center, first established in 2006 by Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in a facility of the Beitar Illit municipality, was relocated in 2012 into a new building, shared with Malam Team and Citybook Services. Starting in 2008, in operated under Hewlett-Packard Company. Between 2015 and 2017 it belonged to HP Enterprise, and after the 2017 split it was transferred to DXC Technology.

Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are illegal under international law, as was reaffirmed in 2016 by UN Security Council decision 2334. As Human Rights Watch highlighted in a 2016 report, “the only way settlement businesses can avoid or mitigate contributing to abuses in line with their responsibilities under the UN Guiding Principles is by ending their operations in settlements or in settlement-related commercial activity.”

On its UK website, DXC Technology boasts that, for 40 years (as CSC), it has provided the British Ministry of Defence with services such as “training, mission planning and logistics,” including “on the front line.” Some of its employees are deployed in military bases to provide direct support to military personnel. For example, EDS Corporation, which is now in DXC Technology, designed a mission planning system to be used in the fighter jets and helicopters of the British Royal Air Force (RAF). The company takes pride in the fact that, during the 2011 offensive on Libya, it exceeded its contractual obligations with the UK government and deployed its technicians to the bombers’ home base to provide “round-the-clock” support for the airstrike campaign.

In the U.S. Prison industry, one of DXC Technology largest contracts is with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The company designed, implemented, and now manages the California’s Strategic Offender Management System, which stores and tracks information on all current and former people incarcerated by the state. This data can be used to discriminate against formerly incarcerated persons years after their release. This contract with the State of California is in effect at least until 2019.

DXC Technology also supports mass deportations. In 2010, the HP Enterprise Services, which is now in DXC Technology, was contracted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to design and implement a system to speed up deportation processes. The system automated the process by which the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) determines the immigration status and identity of suspects through tracking warrants, jail rosters and “criminal alien tracking.” Under the “Secure Communities Initiative,” this information was shared with other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies across the U.S.

Other Controversies

In 2014, Hewlett-Packard Company pleaded guilty to felony bribery charges of its subsidiaries in Russia, Poland, and Mexico. Hewlett-Packard representatives bribed local government officials in the three countries to secure government contracts. The company was fined a total of $108 million in criminal and regulatory penalties.

Between 2003-2007, Computer Science Corporation (CSC), the legal predecessor of DXC Technology, was involved in the U.S. extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture program. The company was routinely contracted by the CIA to transport unlawfully detained prisoners between “black sites.” Among the cases that became public are the rendition of a falsely-imprisoned German citizen from a CIA secret prison in Afghanistan to Albania, and the rendition of three Libyan dissidents back to the Gaddafi regime in 2004.